Back Stop

[angelariz]

A friend of mine allows the big tree trimming companies to dump the wood chips from their trucks on his farm. They are always looking for free places to unload them. Each load makes about a 6ft X 6ft pile. Stops bullets with no bounce back. Pile them as high and wide as you want. Also makes good garden additive after they decompose a few years.

I wish. My state hordes the wood chips to bury road kill and probably gives it to their cronies.
I use wood chips for no till farming but i have to pay for it.

 

[angelariz]

I have a 1/4” steel plate angled so bullets deflect down. Only shoot BP pistols and .22 LR and have not had any issues.

Where did you spurce the metal plates?

 

[angelariz]

Just save the hassle you know is coming and join a range. If the cops show up even just one time for a complaint, you are in the system and a very easy target.

Some folks on the other side of the block shoot so if i get cops called, im calling for every little ********....lol
We dont have a station here. We share a Trooper barracks with 5 towns.

 

[Mogadishu Meanderer]

What do you use for a back stop qhile shooting your cap and Ball pistols?
I may have to hire a person with a backhoe to make some hills or something. I live in a Red pocket in the North East of CT so i think I’ll be Okay firing light charges once a week or so. If not, eventually I’ll join a proper shooting club.

How about a 55 gallon barrel propped up with 2x4s filled with sand? Fairly easily made, collects all your lead and can be dismantled easily if requested by the authorities. It beats getting a backhoe and making something permanent that you may not eventually be able to use. Most CB are low power and shot relatively close range so missing the 30” in diameter barrel should not be and issue but it should be placed in an area that a possible miss won’t end up using a Communist as backstop! This could also work with a smaller 30 gallon barrel.

 

[Timber Wolf]

Where did you spurce the metal plates?

Hard to say, I’ve been scrounging steel for years from various construction sites I worked at. It was just heavy trash back then they were glad for me to haul off.

 

[BS2366]

Dirt mound, old tires filled with dirt, dirt mound over old water heater, and the many acres of trees behind it in our woods.

 

[Jedidiah]

I'm glad to see you using a backstop. I'm a firm believer in backstops, no matter how much property a person owns behind the target.
I used RR ties stacked up against a 4x4 post frame I made and leaned against a tree. Then I piled dirt against it. This let me get twice as high and twice as wide than I would have with just the dirt mound.

That is what should be done. A backstop should be overbuilt, not the other way around.IMHO!

 

[JEBMs]

How much are y’all paying for cross ties? Here they more than doubled since COVID and are $24.95 each now and you have to pick through them to find any decent ones. Lemme tell ya, picking through crossties is a b!¥€#!!

 

[nick_1]

once you pull the trigger and send it down range you own it. Not having a good backstop is not smart. Even though I own the land behind my targets I used the tractor and my dump truck to make a backstop. god forbid some kid was fishing in my stream and a round made it through the bushes and killed him. the legal troubles would be the least of my worries. I would have a hard time carrying that weight around.

 

[Gtrubicon]

This is what I built and use as a bullet trap. Projectiles enter the pipe at the back of the trap and spin down into the bucket. Then I re smelt and cast the lead. It’s all 1/4” steel. For muzzleloaders, small caliber pistol it’s great. Full tilt 44 mag wrinkled it a bit.

 

[SOLANCO]

This is what I built and use as a bullet trap. Projectiles enter the pipe at the back of the trap and spin down into the bucket. Then I re smelt and cast the lead. It’s all 1/4” steel. For muzzleloaders, small caliber pistol it’s great. Full tilt 44 mag wrinkled it a bit.

If you have a genuine need, cost of shooting /training with the 44Mag is not an issue. Otherwise it is how much will you spend to stroke your ego.
Admission: I once had avalid need. No longer. But I like the gun.

 

[Gtrubicon]

If you have a genuine need, cost of shooting /training with the 44Mag is not an issue. Otherwise it is how much will you spend to stroke your ego.
Admission: I once had avalid need. No longer. But I like the gun.

I am an avid reloader, most of my 44 mag is at 44 spc or a little above. I shoot them for literally Pennies per shot as I cast and stick up on components when they are not in panic mode.

 

[snakebit]

I am an avid reloader, most of my 44 mag is at 44 spc or a little above. I shoot them for literally Pennies per shot as I cast and stick up on components when they are not in panic mode.

Yep. I hand load mine for MOD (minute of deer) so they need to be accurate, as I do hunt with it from time to time. Not sure where the ego stroking came from......?

 

[snakebit]

This is what I built and use as a bullet trap. Projectiles enter the pipe at the back of the trap and spin down into the bucket. Then I re smelt and cast the lead. It’s all 1/4” steel. For muzzleloaders, small caliber pistol it’s great. Full tilt 44 mag wrinkled it a bit.

That it's on wheels is pretty cool.

 

[sheriff john]

Prefer the dirt mound approach in general provided there are no rocks nor debris to facilitate a ricochet. But ...always consider what lies beyond for the distance your projectile may travel. It only takes one bullet to ruin a life.

Two ranges I was personally involved with were shut down due to escaping projectiles. One was a 50=year-old gun club, the other a million-dollar state law enforcement range. It's all fun 'til something happens.

 

[pacanis]

This is what I built and use as a bullet trap. Projectiles enter the pipe at the back of the trap and spin down into the bucket. Then I re smelt and cast the lead. It’s all 1/4” steel. For muzzleloaders, small caliber pistol it’s great. Full tilt 44 mag wrinkled it a bit.

Well thought out.

 

[Gtrubicon]

That it's on wheels is pretty cool.

I set my bench up in one spot and move the target for whatever distances I want to shoot at.

 

[nick_1]

that bullit stop on wheels is very cool but its not a backstop. it still needs to be placed in front of a backstop.

 

[Okie Hog]

My range has earthen berms at 78, 125 and 250 yards. The 250 yard berm needs to be raised about three feet and we don't shoot there. i'm working on it.

Every bullet or ball that leaves your property is engraved with your name.

 

[Sam squanch]

My house has a few 22 lr holes in it from who knows where. The deputy basically told me I’d have to dig the bullet out to prove it was a bullet before they would investigate. That would do more damage than the actual hole….